ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anthropocentrism, Middle Ages, Nylon
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Review: rhetorical techniques: metaphor and analogy, narraive shape: the two stories. Bill jones appleseed and the spiritual john chapman. The madness of tulipomania and the appeal of beauty. Beauty is a distracion, a variaion: self-relexivity (the i voice) Review: key terms: coevoluion and natural selecion. Doesn"t really come up in other chapters(coevoluion) Natural selecion is key, provides sense of chance, variability, and process that what pollan believes allowed darwin to challenge baconism: domesicaion(reducion), hybridizaion, variaion. Pollan = big believer in the success of hybridizaion between human and nature. Placing animals and plants in control allows humans to be superior and control. Reducion: no. of species is reduced, so there is only dominant species: beauty and desire. But it is existent to break down apollonian thought: variaion. Two stories: the promise and the threat: from the forbidden plant and its temptaions to so sure the author of genesis was, either (p. 113, he introduces two concepts: promise and threat.
